The aim of this study was to degrade furfural by a new nanotube system. To degrade some organic pollutants as well as to reduce the amount of furfural which is a well-known pollutant in oil industry, the photocatalytic process along with ultraviolet (UV) irradiation may be employed. In this study, the UV/TiO2/Pd system in which the nanoparticles of palladium doped into the titanium dioxide was ...

Classification and searching play an important role in modern file systems and file clustering is an effective approach to do this. This paper presents a new labeling system by making use of the Extended File Attributes [1] of file system, and a simple file clustering algorithm based on this labeling system is also introduced. By regarding attributes and attribute-value pairs as labels of files...

This paper presents the rates of CO(2) production for four groups of Drosophila which differ in their chromosome constitutions. The four groups have metabolic rates which correlate with the balance of their chromosomes, the balanced chromosome groups of flies producing less CO(2) than the unbalanced chromosome groups. It is concluded therefore that genic balance plays a prominent part in metabo...

History Guy Leroy Hunner, a Boston gynaecologist, described this inflammatory bladder disease a century ago in great detail for the first time in a series of papers, the first being published in 1914 (republished in 1915). In this first paper he writes: “While cystoscopy usually reveals only one inflammatory spot, there may be two or three granulation areas near together or somewhat separated, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease where predetermined and stochastic factors conspire to confer disease susceptibility. In light of the diverse responses to targeted therapies, rheumatoid arthritis might represent a final common clinical phenotype that reflects many pathogenic pathways. Therefore, it might be appropriate to begin thinking about rheumatoid arthritis as a syndrome rather ...